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or king-sized
1
as in gigantic
unusually large
built a king-size mansion with the money he had made in the stock market
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2
as in elongated
of great extent from end to end
the king-size snake known as the anaconda
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Recent Examples of king-size
The primary suite is at the end of a hall extending from the kitchen, with a bedroom that fits a king-size bed, a large walk-in closet and a bathroom with a dual vanity and a walk-in shower.
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Angela Serratore, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
The coverlet fit a king-size bed well with enough material hanging off the sides to cover the bed’s flat sheet and blanket on all sides.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
Beyond the modules, Four Wheel offers a long list of options, including various solar packages, a pair of portable toilet options, an automatic roof lift, a larger king-size bed, the two aforementioned stoves, and a Truma furnace.
—New Atlas, 14 Feb. 2025
For example, the price of a king-size two-pack of Reese’s hearts increased by 13% from February 2024 to February 2025, to $2.59 from $2.29, according to Retail Brew.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2025
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Angela Serratore, New York Times, 19 Feb. 2025
The coverlet fit a king-size bed well with enough material hanging off the sides to cover the bed’s flat sheet and blanket on all sides.
—Rebecca Jones, Southern Living, 17 Feb. 2025
Beyond the modules, Four Wheel offers a long list of options, including various solar packages, a pair of portable toilet options, an automatic roof lift, a larger king-size bed, the two aforementioned stoves, and a Truma furnace.
—New Atlas, 14 Feb. 2025
For example, the price of a king-size two-pack of Reese’s hearts increased by 13% from February 2024 to February 2025, to $2.59 from $2.29, according to Retail Brew.
—Greg Iacurci, CNBC, 13 Feb. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for king-size
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Acoustic Sounds occupies a hodgepodge of squat industrial buildings in Salina, a city of about 50,000 near the geographic center of the 48 contiguous states, where grain elevators and a gigantic frozen pizza plant jut out from the flat plains landscape.—
Chris Stirewalt,
The Hill,
7 Mar. 2025
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Some knobby with new growth, some short or gigantic, some suffering or shrunken, some reaching over paths and roads.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
5 Mar. 2025
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Sawfish, related to rays, skates and sharks, are named for their elongated, flat snout that contains a row of teeth on each side.—
Curt Anderson,
Sun Sentinel,
5 Mar. 2025
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Lenses that are less spherical and more elongated, in contrast, can produce a similar phenomenon called an Einstein Cross, in which four distinct images are produced around the lensing galaxy.—
Justin Gest,
Newsweek,
11 Feb. 2025
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Running over a year off-Broadway has been a dream come true, and has set us up for huge success nationwide.—
Jordan Moreau,
Variety,
4 Mar. 2025
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Photo : Miroslav Cik A huge terrace wraps around the house, providing lots of space for alfresco dining and relaxing.—
Emma Reynolds,
Robb Report,
4 Mar. 2025
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Some feature high waists to elongate legs or pleats to conjure old-school élan worthy of Cary Grant.—
Charlie Teasdale,
WSJ,
21 Nov. 2023
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The fragment, which was cleaved from its fecal parent with a pair of wire cutters, resembles a chunk of light-colored concrete with darker, elongate inclusions that Chin recognizes as bone.—
Karen Wright,
Discover Magazine,
11 Nov. 2019
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There are spells, curses, vendettas, a twist villain, giant dragons who turn into humanoid warriors and many other creatures populating the world of this gargantuan feat of eye-popping computer animation.—
Carlos Aguilar,
Variety,
2 Mar. 2025
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The pair re-teamed at the Academy Awards the following year for the broadcast’s introductory sketch, which featured Palance dragging a giant Oscar statue onstage, with Crystal (again the host) riding it.—
Jordan Runtagh,
People.com,
2 Mar. 2025
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The casting has set off a long string of controversies from many different sides of Harry Potter fandom, or even outside of that, for multiple reasons.—
Paul Tassi,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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Lining up officials to speak on the record proved to be a long and difficult process.—
Johnny Dodd,
People.com,
8 Mar. 2025
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Well-known for her use of out-of-the-ordinary materials over the years, like scarab wings and ancient mammoth ivory, van der Velden rose to the challenge of reinventing that most classic of stone in her own, original way.—
Kate Matthams,
Forbes,
8 Mar. 2025
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The Tigers missed 16 straight shots, going scoreless for an unthinkable stretch — that mammoth 31-0 Bulldogs run.—
The Kansas City Star,
Kansas City Star,
6 Mar. 2025
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There is a mutual readiness to work to restore relations and gradually solve a colossal amount of systemic strategic problems in the global architecture.—
Dan Perry,
Newsweek,
28 Feb. 2025
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Today’s state-of-the-art LLMs, capable of generating text, writing codes and analyzing data, rely on colossal infrastructure for training, storage and inference.—
Gerui Wang,
Forbes,
28 Feb. 2025
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“King-size.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/king-size. Accessed 14 Mar. 2025.
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